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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2014 Sep 12;110(1):71–79. doi: 10.1111/add.12704

Table 1.

Cronbach’s alpha for the 4 expectancy scales derived from the Beverage Opinion Questionnaire. The average correlation was found by averaging the Fisher transforms of the 3 correlations and taking the inverse transform of the results.

Cronbach's alpha (standardized value)
Cognitive improvement (3 items) Negative Affect Arousal (3 items) Social enhancement /Relaxation (7 items) Average
Age 6–8 .66 .57 .68 .64
Age 9–11 .84 .64 .70 .74
Age 12–14 .79 .64 .83 .76
Age 15–17 .87 .67 .88 .82